(This dialog box won’t appear if you only have footnotes or endnotes.) It is not possible to modify the style of the footnote separator and endnote separator at the same time.
Or if you are showing the Rulers you can manually move the indent indicator, obviously you will have to be at the Endnote text to do this. Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it. Modify the Endnote Text style to set the right indent.Use Words regular formatting tools to change the paragraph indentation on the separator. The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator. Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator.Now you can see the separator and the empty paragraph:.Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator.A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:.However, you can adjust this from the Footnote and Endnote window by clicking the Columns dropdown menu and selecting the number of columns you’d like to use. By default, Word creates footnote and endnote lists with the same layout as the page on which they appear. When in doubt, stay away from anything that isn’t a citation. When necessary, you should always use endnotes, but don’t bury information in the endnotes. Number pages consecutively from start to finish (as opposed to chapter-by-chapter). Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes. Change the Layout of Footnotes and Endnotes. All chapters, pages, appendixes, and exhibits should be kept in order.You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft).Don’t worry, Word has improved its handling of Hidden text from the days when gaps where left in the document where paragraphs were hidden. styles ‘Footnote Text’ and ‘Endnote Text’) to ‘Hidden’ under the Style settings choose Font then Hidden Text. You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below. You can get an idea of how big your margins are because as your document grows, you will be able to see the white space around. In short, the usual workaround is to change the footnote/endnote styles (i.e.
You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line. The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below. When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.